Live Thread: Cavs @ Hornets
2024-03-27Happy Hump day, Cavstheblogoliers. Cleveland completes their home and home series against the Hornets tonight. Max Strus will return to the lineup and Donovan Mitchell is shooting for a Friday return. I for one am excited to have Max’s consistent two-way play back in the lineup. Dean Wade and TY Jerome remain out.
For Charlotte, LaMelo, Mark Williams, Caleb Martin, and Seth Curry remain out. Let’s hope the Cavs don’t play with their food and diversify their offensive sets. I’m sure JB appreciates the zone Ora rice the Hornets will throw at them. Go Cavs.
When DM comes back Friday might have to take DG and Vert off the ball for a bit.
Watch us beat Philly and Denver now.
Garland with no business being in there after turning the ankle.He wasn’t getting it done before that.
At this rate, Cavs might be lucky to keep home court advantage in the 1st round.
This has been a month of shitty bball.
Haha. Goodnight.
Yezus this is bad.
In the last 2:16, DG & Caris turned it over 3 times & JA missed 2 FTs.
How not to close?
It’s the Levert/Garland competition for driving the team car into a wall.
Can we sit Garland till next season?
They’re done
15 points in the 4th quarter. This team is hot garbage!
Grant Williams. Flop king.
And then JA misses 2. Ugh.
Garland has a serious basketball IQ problem without being smart enough to realize it.
He’s had a real shitty year.
JB cannot seem to help him, either.
Honestly, does anyone think Garland + LeVert are worth $50 million?
As a #2 and a sixth man? probably.
As the main two creators? We saw this in 21-22, it’s terrible offense.
AYFKM
Come. On. Jarrett
Make your damn FTs dude!
Good lord did they work for those free throws.
Take Garland out. What are doing?
He’s just been letting him hijack the game.
Seriously,clearly not right.
Fahk
This team is so dumb.
Yep. That is so true.
There is the DG 2 minute TO.
Go inside. Shot early jacking triples.
Stop.
Micic looks like one those guys who was growing a beard when he was 10.
Cavs getting more cheers than hornets. What a weird game.
Might think about closing with the two bigs and Ice? Iono. I like clamps
G man,
DG3!
DG finally!
A lead!
They need to sit Garland for a few games this get his head right.
Garland has to try to score that.
This team is going nowhere fast!
Holy shit Miller.
Get a freaking rebound. FFS.
This game is goofy as hell.
Get a rebound FFS!
How do you get a flopping tech then come back and flop on the inbound.
And he just got another call!
Wow this call.
I know Mitchell is out. And Wade.
But the only top 8 teams I think we can beat are Indy & Orlando.
D out of the gate in that quarter was better, but CHA made their shots and stayed rolling. Then the individual breakdowns started happening again. Hornet are playing hero ball and they are the heroes.
Game is still very winnable if we just get our act together and play like a 3 seed vs a lottery team.
CHA going to hang 130 on us
Lordy we are soft.
Don’t worry about seeding, this team might win a round with a good matchup. But we won’t be able to beat Boston, NY, Philly with Embiid, playoff Jimmy, or Giannis.
This is embarrassing.
Good lord.
Niang giveth, Niang taketh away
Allen is such a good finisher.
Cavs are lucky these guys are so shitty
Bridges beat Niang like he was his… nevermind
That got dark.
I’m just annoyed like we don’t have enough baskeball players in the world that we have to give millions of dollars to guys like this?
Tough challenge. Maybe that makes them mad and gets them going.
I don’t know the rule, can you just land with one leg a few feet out in front of the other and then trip the defender?
I mean he’s got like a six foot stride.
Yeah I’m not saying its wrong I honestly don’t know what’s fair there. Trying not to be a homer about the call but I will say it seems harder and harder to play defense these days so I try to give the benefit of the doubt to the defender
I thought t was a good reversal. They didn’t say it was a foul on the Cavs. just no call.
The Cavs are so dumb. WTF is this game.
Still not enough rim pressure
Gross.
Great ball movement and shooting first half. Nice seeing Strus out there. DG… Good Lord…
He has played much better D than this in other games. What is up?
He’s just off and doesn’t respect Tre Mann and Micic after they went like 2 quarters without a FG Monday
DG worst half of the season. Good time for it
Garland should have to wear orange at all times. If you look up the definition of the “too small” emote you should see a picture of Garland
I am trying not to be too negative. But he is not consistently good enough on O to justify the consistently terrible D. Not at that salary.
We are shooting 60% from 3. What, 12 or 13 makes, in a half! And only up 1.
He has been really inconsistent. The salary conversation remains silly. He makes market for a young #2 (MPJ and Bane make the same money and lay plenty of weird turds) and if he was making 75% of it he would still have tough stretches. The contract was the right call and it sucks that he’s having a bad year. With Donovan and Wade and Okoro and the two bigs there’s enough to cover him and he just may not close some games. It’s mystifying because he can be a gamer against Trae or Maxey. Consistent effort would be good. Tbh… Read more »
DG an absolute traffic cone on D
Micic knows what’s up
If he was tearing it up on O then maybe its ok? But he has been turnover city + clank fest
Micic wearing Garland like a cape.
Gotta give poku his props on that move. Followed by a sweet and1 by JA
Garland is BBQ Chicken on D tonight.
He really is.
Lots of cavs fans in building.
Poku playing in that zone cracked me up. So terrible.
sloppy. DG not respecting the opponent at all
JB benched CPJ cause it looked like he was getting cooked and they’ve been much worse with Garland.
TT looking spritely….🤔
Soooooolid scoring to start. Charlotte still leaking out to stay in touch, gotta clamp down at some point.
LMAOOOOO Niang with a three and a STFU for the crowd that’s my dawg
CHA not facing much resistance in the paint…
DG realllly bad to start
Thanks Nate getting this as always, gotta head out for dinner… but Cavs coming out very business-like! Go Cavs
Strus is loose & hope he stays that way. Go Cavs!